Kathy moved from CA to NY and is now a Community Library Manager with the Queens Public Library

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Neely will be leaving Orrick and moving to Ithaca NY where she has accepted a position at Cornell’s University Management School Library.

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Sally has accepted a new position as Youth Services Manager for Fairfax County Public Library.

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Sol was named one Library Journal’s Movers and Shakes.

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As for the project we are trying to begin the final wrap up.

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Beth is using Flickr to find more photos. We e-mail and snail mailed many letter to libraries but didn’t have the best luck. Sol has taken additional pictures in AZ for the videos and Sally continues to update snapfish.

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The Group still needs to make final photo selections.

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But Beth has done a draft of the video.

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Once the final selections are made Neely will soon start working on the first video and Sol will soon begin the RUSA Video.

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The group decided the video will be 25-30 seconds in length and we will use quotes as well as photos and at the end of the video we will have a special thanks slide to say thank you to everyone!

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Sally will start making the poster project.

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And by next month everyone in the group should be viewing the video.

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The group is on track!!

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'''To come in May 2008''' <br />

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Finish it!

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-May 6, 2008 Kathy Buchsbaum

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'''May/June 2008 Status Report'''

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The hard work is done and the video is complete.

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We are ready for the poster session!

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Everyone has really worked hard and put it together.

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It is in the YouTube phase as soon as YouTube confirms it the link will be posted here.

Description

A 2007 Emerging Leader project (Project CC)See: http://wikis.ala.org/emergingleaders/index.php/Project_CC was to create a recruitment video. We propose this year to build on that and to create additional recruitment videos for librarianship and RUSA. With the experience of the first group as our guide, at least two videos to be displayed on YouTube, librarycareers.org, and other appropriate outlets will be created. One video would be aimed at getting people interested in librarianship and one would be aimed at getting people to join ALA/RUSA

Expected Outcomes

New recruitment tools for the association and the profession would be created. The Emerging Leaders would have the opportunity to produce, edit and promote the product

Group Members

Kathy Buchsbaum

Beth Cackowski

Sol Gomez

Sally Ma

Neely Tang

Mentor: Dave Tyckoson

Introductions

Kathy Buchsbaum- is the Community Library Manager at Cambria Heights, which is part of The Queens Library. With a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a MLIS from San Jose State University, Kathy enjoys combining performance with Library Science.

Beth Cackowski is the Project Coordinator for QandANJ.org, New Jersey's 24/7 Virtual Reference Service. Beth graduated with a BA from Rutgers University and an MLIS form Clark Atlanta University. Her current focus is on QandANJ.org's biggest users: teens!

Sally Ma is a Youth Services Manager for Fairfax County Public Library and a Research Associate for Fitzgerald Information Services. She graduated with a BA from Cal State Long Beach and an MSLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Neely Tang is a Business Research Specialist for Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. She graduated with a BA from Drew University and an MLIS from University of Pittsburgh. Neely is also proud to be a 2005 ALA Spectrum Scholar.

Sol A. Gómez Branch Manager, Pima County Public Library, Arizona

Team Roles

Sally Ma Gmail & Snapfish reader Lead for the Poster Project & much much more

Kathy Buchsbaum Update wiki/RUSA blog with team progress Monitor the work of the team & much much more

Status Reports

January 2008 Status Report
Meeting at the ALA Midwinter Meeting was a blast! We really got down to work and made a plan to accomplish our video goal for inspiring future librarians!

Here is what we accomplished in January 2008

• Meet & greet at ALA Winter Meeting
• Timeline for out video
• Divided up responsibilities
• Neely set up our G-mail and Snapfish account
• Sol wrote a draft of our letter requesting photos
• We all reviewed the draft
• Final version of the letter was group approved
• Beth wrote up our list-serve blurb
• Everyone went forth and posted the blurb to list-serves and forums
• Sally started organizing the submitted photos on Snapfish
• Beth contacted Connie Paul for a official letterhead, only received a logo
• Sally made a “official “ letterhead that the group decided to use
• Neely organized an excel spread sheet of names of libraries for everyone to get address
• Everyone is searching for addresses/e-mail to send out requests for photos
• We continually make contact with each other and on our way to a successful video

To come in February 2008
• Mailing out letters and getting responses
• Picking music
• Sally organizing more photos
• Working on the script
• Keeping up our conversation to make an inspiring video!

-Feb 6, 2008 Kathy Buchsbaum

Here is what we accomplished in February 2008February 2008 Status Report

Getting down to work! Sending letter getting Pictures!

• Mailed out letters
• E-mailed out letters
• Getting pictures
• Sally is working on putting the pictures in snapfish
• We continually make contact with each other and on our way to a successful video

To come in March 2008
• Continue to get responses
• Picking music
• Sally organizing more photos
• Working on the script
• Keeping up out conversation to make an inspiring video!

-March 13, 2008 Kathy Buchsbaum

March/April 2008 Status Report

Two months of many personal changes for the group.

Kathy moved from CA to NY and is now a Community Library Manager with the Queens Public Library
Neely will be leaving Orrick and moving to Ithaca NY where she has accepted a position at Cornell’s University Management School Library.
Sally has accepted a new position as Youth Services Manager for Fairfax County Public Library.
Sol was named one Library Journal’s Movers and Shakes.

As for the project we are trying to begin the final wrap up.
Beth is using Flickr to find more photos. We e-mail and snail mailed many letter to libraries but didn’t have the best luck. Sol has taken additional pictures in AZ for the videos and Sally continues to update snapfish.

The Group still needs to make final photo selections.

But Beth has done a draft of the video.

Once the final selections are made Neely will soon start working on the first video and Sol will soon begin the RUSA Video.

The group decided the video will be 25-30 seconds in length and we will use quotes as well as photos and at the end of the video we will have a special thanks slide to say thank you to everyone!

Sally will start making the poster project.

And by next month everyone in the group should be viewing the video.

The group is on track!!

To come in May 2008
Finish it!

-May 6, 2008 Kathy Buchsbaum

May/June 2008 Status Report

The hard work is done and the video is complete.

We are ready for the poster session!

Everyone has really worked hard and put it together.

It is in the YouTube phase as soon as YouTube confirms it the link will be posted here.